Jonathan Paulsson

Jonathan Paulsson

Favorite films

  • Call Me by Your Name
  • The Intouchables
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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  • Pride & Prejudice

    ★★★★½

  • Moana 2

    ★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★★

  • Julie & Julia

    ★★★

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    I cannot even begin to phantom what I actually just witnessed… 
    I feel Villeneuved. 
    Meaning the feeling of having one’s brain liquified and spilled all over your chair. 
    The soundtrack… the insane visuals and cinematography… the imax experience….
    My poor brain can’t handle it, it’s like a deep full body massage. I feel like mush. 

    To me, after having read the first two books and having followed the series in such suspense after the first movie, this sequel reached an…

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★½

    Heartfelt, striking and a sympathetic depiction of generational grief. I was a little surprised at the tone of the movie, considering that my cinema put it under comedies. But now I recognize it as a melancholic type of comedy, which was hilarious at times and in a way therapeutic. It made the heavy material and reality of it all slightly more digestible. 
    As a last note, coming from a family where my own grandparents were traumatized and scarred from the war, this movie hit home.